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Our next guest is Leah Bucholz, the founder and leader of Prestige Veteran Medical Consulting. PVMC is a veteran-owned family company dedicated to serving those who have served. Specializing in Independent Medical Opinions, commonly known as "Nexus Letters," the firm delves into the intricacies of injuries and illnesses stemming from military service. Moreover, Leah is a U.S. Army veteran, medical expert, and former C & P examiner. Join Leah and me as we discuss the significance of robust security measures and policy enforcement to ensure HIPAA compliance and protect patient privacy. She shares practical advice on maintaining documents electronically, managing passwords securely, and utilizing PDF readers for sensitive data handling. We also discuss legal tech tools for efficient document review and management. Overall, our discussion emphasizes the critical role of technology in safeguarding confidential information, complying with regulations, and enhancing productivity in professional settings. Join Leah and me as we discuss the following three questions and more! 1.     What are the top three tips for maintaining HIPAA compliance of documents online electronically? 2.     What are the top three tips for maintaining many documents online electronically? 3.     What are the top three secret tips for using your favorite PDF reader? In our conversation, we cover the following: [01:13] Building a Secure Remote Tech Ecosystem: Exploring Cloud-Based Tools, Compliance, and Backup Strategies [12:48] Mastering HIPAA Compliance: Essential Tips for Maintaining Document Security Online [26:17] Top Tips for Managing a Large Volume Online [35:52] Unlocking PDF Reader Magic: Expert Tips for Efficiency and Effectiveness [28:45] Connect with Leah Resources: Connect with Leah: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leahbucholz/ Website: prestigeveteranmctx.com/ YouTube: youtube.com/@prestigeveteranmedical Email: mailto:leah@prestigeveteranmctx.com/ Hardware mentioned in the conversation: 1.     Internet connection provided by AT&T: att.com/internet/fiber/ Software & Cloud Services mentioned in the conversation: 1.     Zoho: zoho.com/ 2.     Zoho Vault: zoho.com/vault/ 3.     JotForm: jotform.com/ 4.     Spanning: spanning.com/ 5.     Backupify: backupify.com/ 6.     Speedtest.net: speedtest.net/ 7.     Zapier: zapier.com/

Amy Spurling is Founder and CEO at Compt. She is a seasoned executive with over 20 years experience in leadership roles at venture-backed companies ranging from early start-up phase through high growth and ultimately exit. Amy's backgound is finance and her resume includes CFO roles at Jana; Backupify and EXOS and COO at Bedrock Data. She has completed successful fundraising rounds at each of these organisations, including a $57m series C. Now Amy Spurling is running her own company. Compt helps companies build, streamline, and scale employee perk stipends that delight teams and give companies a more productive and engaged workforce. Everyone has different needs, and she beleives that when perks take this into account the value to the employee goes beyond just beer or catered lunches and becomes so much more. We talk about the concept behind Compt, and look at how you can retain people and improve employee engagement very effectively without breaking the bank to do so. Something thats very welcome when you have budget constraints. Links Amy Spurling on LinkedIn Kevin Appleby on LinkedIn Find out more about Compt Flexible training at Learnerbly CFO Competency Framework New free resources: The GrowCFO CFO Competency Framework eBook and Career Routes to CFO report Future CFO programme Timestamps 0:11 What role do you have in Compt? 4:12 What's the current state of employee perks in the US? 9:06 Sustaining employee engagement is part of a multivariable puzzle. 14:03 The company gets to customise what they want employees to be able to focus on. 19:19 What is the difference between a benefits system that is personalised to company culture and one that is aligned with the company culture? 22:47 The learnerbly allowance 28:25 Why is all of this on a budget? 33:30 How do you approach that particular conundrum at the moment if you want to reduce the number of people you've hired?

Charlie O'Donnell is one of only a dozen individuals to be named to Business Insider's 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech 5x or more. He has been an active member of the NYC startup community for nearly 20 years, with a reputation of being the most accessible early stage investor in New York. Charlies fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, has made over 70 investments since it was founded, making it one of the most active funds investing in pre-seed and seed rounds in the city. Notable First Round's investments include:  GroupMe (acq. by Skype),  SinglePlatform (acq. by Constant Contact),  Moat (acq. by Oracle) and  Backupify (acq. by Datto) He served on the founding board of the New York Tech Meetup and is one of the group's first 100 members. His blog, This is Going to Be BIG!, is one of the ten most widely read VC blogs in the country. He has spoken at SXSW and Techcrunch Disrupt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:01:45 - Who is Steve Travaglini in his own words 02:31 - What is the best investment an early career sales person can make for themselves and why? 06:19 - How have Steve's views on sales changed over the years? 10:52 - One mistake Steve made early in his sales career and how did it impact him going forward 16:49 - Who has had the biggest impact on Steve's sales career and why? 19:43 - With the benefit of hindsight, what would Steve say to an early careers sales person? 23:03 - Where to reach out to SteveMORE ON STEVE:As Chief Revenue Officer of LinkSquares, Steve Travaglini drives all Sales, Customer Success, and Business Development strategies. Steve is passionate about leading LinkSquares to over $100M ARR while developing 20 future CROs from within his teams. Steve first met the LinkSquares founding team while working together at Backupify, which was later acquired by Datto. Steve lives in Reading MA, with his wife Julia and their two children.MORE ON RAMPED:Check us out at www.rampedcareers.comInterested in becoming a Ramped Professional? Sign up here: https://www.rampedcareers.com/onboarding/signupInterested in becoming a Ramped Corporate Partner? Email us at sales@rampedcareers.com

Tate Talks with…. Emily Glass I really enjoyed my conversation with Emily, she has had an amazing career to date. We covered a wide range of topics ranging from soccer to being the CEO of a multinational corporation. Emily Glass is president and CEO of Syncro, an all-in-one RMM, PSA, and remote access tool that helps managed service providers run more profitable businesses. Previously, Emily was Customer Experience Officer at Datto, where she created an award-winning technical support experience, and Datto's Chief Product Officer, driving product strategy. Emily has also served in senior leadership positions at Alyce, Backupify, Akamai, and Brightcove. Emily holds degrees in both computer engineering and fine arts. You can connect with Emily on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyglass/ Syncro Website - https://syncromsp.com Emily spoke about : Book - The Five Invitations - Discover What Death Can Teach Us About Fully Living Podcast - Don't Ask Tig Podcast - On Being Podcast - Dead Eyes Tate Talks is kindly sponsored by JumpCloud for MSPs Credits: Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Most companies in the tech industry that scale aggressively and create a category leading company usually raise a significant amount of venture capital funding. In the case of LinkSquares, the company has raised over $161M in funding which includes a $100M Series C round of funding that was announced in April. The funding has come along at a very steady clip with its Series B round in 2021 and Series A round in 2020. Needless to say LinkSquares is in hypergrowth mode and this capital is helping the company take advantage of its product market fit, but Vishal and I start off the conversation with a deep dive into how he's been able to raise capital each year while balancing his responsibilities as a CEO with hundreds of other taks that need to be tackled. LinkSquares is the company behind the AI-powered contract management platform for legal teams aiming to move their business forward faster. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Vishal's background growing up, including the start of his professional career and how the Startup Institute helped pave his way into the world of startups. * His experience at Backupify and various roles that he played at the company. * The full story of LinkSquares and how they identified this opportunity to disrupt an industry and take on incumbants. * All the details on the LinkSquares platform and how they are leveraging AI, plus the company's growth plans ahead. * His biggest lessons learned as a CEO of a hypergrowth company. * And so much more. If you like the show, please remember to subscribe and review us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.

I feel like this interview was long overdue, as I've know Rob for a long time. I probably first met him at one of the tech events in Boston… maybe Web Innovators Group or something like that. It was during a resurgence of the tech industry in that region where a new crop of entrepreneurs were building companies and Rob's company, Backupify, was one of the hot companies in the Boston tech scene. Backupify raised funding from top investors like First Round Capital, Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercase Capital and top angel investors like Dharmesh Shah, Chris Sacca, and Jason Calacanis. It was a big deal because he chose to build his company in Boston instead of Silicon Valley or NYC, which helped him make a splash coming from Kentucky. Since having a successful exit with Backupify, Rob has gone on to make a major impact to not only the Boston tech scene, but to the tech industry at large as both an entrepreneur and investor. His latest company is called Dianthus, the world's only AI-first eCommerce company which is acquiring small to medium sized brands and helping them grow faster with a common AI platform that includes not just new technologies, but new AI-centric workflows, processes, and ways of working. The company just announced $11.5M in seed funding led by PJC, Underscore, and Jason Calacanis. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * The use of AI and the areas that Rob finds the most interesting in terms of use cases. * Rob's early professional career out of school and a look at how he got into blogging in the early days, including how it has helped him as an entrepreneur. * The story of Backupify, a backup cloud company that was started in 2008 for Salesforce and Google Apps and was acquired by Datto. * His experience as an investor - first as an angel, which includes some amazing advice on how to get started as an angel investor and then his experience as a Venture Partner at PJC. * A deep dive into the creation of his latest company, Dianthus and how they are leveraging AI as a competitive advantage. * Advice for hiring when building out your company. * And so much more. If you like the show, please remember to subscribe and review us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.

Steve interviews business guru Justin Esgar who works guiding business, organizations and individuals through the world of Apple IT via his company Virtua Consulting Group. He also works as a business consultant and discusses his take on modern outsourcing, his career as an technical and children’s author and utilizing the correct personnel and IT for your company’s needs. KEY TAKEAWAYS Justin has used virtual assistants and outsourced programming and sales tasks quite often in his career so far and has been impressed by its scope and ease. He uses Upwork, Fiverr and Guru, all online outsource personnel sites to find people for his technical, editing and writing requirements. Chief Technology Officers manages all your technology including your inventory, software, hardware, online presence, data flow and security, literally everything your organisation needs in Information Technology. Justin recommends them highly as the organiser of your outsource IT. Good employees cannot bring you better results without the correct tools to do the job and that’s a good IT system with reliable security and data backup. To create backups of data Justin uses Backupify as a cheap and simple solution to keeping your data safe. BEST MOMENTS ‘I outsource a lot of marketing efforts, whether it’s a sales company or a company who’s going to do my LinkedIn, or outsourcing my blog posts or stuff like that so I’m a huge proponent of it.’ ‘Even though he’s outsourced I still talk to him on a regular basis, we have zoom calls like normal people and I still talk to him like he’s an employee but he doesn’t actually work for the company. I think of him like a contractor, he charges me by the hour, but I have no ties to him and if anything happens I can just get rid of him and find another programmer through that same system.’ ‘We do a holistic overview of their entire system. We are talking computer, network, printers, scanners, phone systems, software, connectivity, electricity, wi-fi, and all of that gets encompassed in that role.’ ABOUT THE GUEST Justin is the founder and CEO of Virtua Consulting Group, a New York City-based company in its second decade of operation. VCG divisions include the Apple-certified consultancy Virtua Computers, the business-focused ACES Conference, and the software development group Virtua XYZ. With a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island and over 15 years of industry experience, Justin focuses on empowering businesses, organizations, and individuals with the judicious application of technology. GUEST RESOURCES Appitalize on Your Idea: Bringing Any Idea to Fruition https://www.amazon.com/Appitalize-Your-Idea-Bringing-Fruition-ebook/dp/B00HMB8B6U http://linkedin.com/in/justinesgar/ www.virtuaconsulting.com VALUABLE RESOURCES Great Sites for Finding Freelancers (Anything) www.upwork.com (Smaller jobs) www.fiverr.com (Technical) www.guru.com Automated Cloud Backup www.backupify.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/ Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10 ABOUT THE HOST Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants. Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help. Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rob May, serial AI entrepreneur and investor,  started as a hardware engineer but realized he could have more of an impact as an entrepreneur and investor. Since then, he has started companies including Backupify (acquired by Datto) and Talla (conversational AI)  and invested in over 100 startups. Rob's a deep thinker and the author of the popular Inside AI weekly newsletter and Investing in AI podcast.Listen and learn...What's holding back AI adoption in the enterpriseNew approaches to address the "small data" AI problemAbout the ethics training we should require for AI algorithm developersWhy those who fear bots taking over are the modern equivalent of LudditesWhat it means to be human when machines are sentientThe moonshot AI idea Rob's most excited aboutReferences in today's episode:Krishna Gade from Fiddler on AI and the Future of WorkAdeptID for matching helping employees upskillMythic for edge AI

Vishal Sunak is the CEO of LinkSquares. He is responsible for developing strategies to assist both corporate legal and finance teams with reviewing their contracts. He works to prevent his customers from having to read each contract one by one. He founded LinkSquares to build great products to improve how businesses operate. Before founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. In 2020, Vishal was named an Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in recognition of his dedication to innovation and growth. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: ◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsunak/ Learn more about his business here: ◘ https://linksquares.com/ Links that the guest wants to share: ◘ https://bit.ly/3mh6OuO

Thank you to our VIP sponsors! Special Thanks to our friends: Topics: -Joe ponders the question, what about requiring a monthly plan? -Everyone debates the merits of a managed services only approach. -One of Jerry's customers mistakenly deleted mass amounts of Gmail data synced with Apple Mail. Retrieval wasn't a simple solution due to how Google “labels” items in comparison to folders in Apple Mail. -One of Tim's clients that stored everything in Apple Mail had a catastrophic issue. -Is Apple Mail a professional mail client? The ongoing debate continues. -Backupify offers native server side backups for Google and Microsoft 365.  -Backblaze affiliate accounts can be an additional revenue stream for consultants. -Alerting customers to issues that come from services like Watchman Monitoring is one thing. But getting them to take action is another.

Vishal Sunak is the founder & CEO LinkSquares, the first AI-powered end-to-end contract lifecycle management platform. Vishal is responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate legal and finance teams with the review of their contracts and works to prevent his customers from having to read each contract one by one.  Vishal founded LinkSquares with the goal of building great products to improve how businesses operate. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy, Your On-Demand Content Team (Sponsor) 01:02 - Intro  02:11 - Vishal's Background & Past Positions 04:09 -  Building, Launching & Growing Linksquares 13:18 - Total Insights into Global SaaS Commitments Meaning 15:07 - Improvements when Leveraging Vishal's CLM 17:53 - Specific Challenges/Risks of Building & Running a Legal Tech Business 16:38 -  AI as the Differentiating Factor in Organizational Success 26:43 -  SaaS is Solving a Problem that the Industry Created 27:42 - Advice Vishal Would Tell his 25 Year old Self 30:19 - Biggest Challenges  Vishal's Facing Right Now 31:38 - Vishal's  Top Resources Instrumental to His Success  34:16 - What does Success mean To Vishal Right Now 35:47 - The Future for Ackroo & Get in Touch with Vishal Mentions: https://linksquares.com/ (Linksquares) https://www.insightsquared.com/ (Insightsquared) https://www.backupify.com/ (Backupify) https://www.saastr.com/ (SaaStr) Books: People: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlemkin/ (Jason Lemkin) https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmay/ (Rob May) Get In Touch With Vishal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsunak/ (Vishal's Linkedin) vishal@linksquares.com Tag us & follow: https://www.facebook.com/HorizenCapitalOfficial/ (Facebook)  https://www.linkedin.com/company/horizen-capital (LinkedIn)  https://www.instagram.com/saasdistrict/ (Instagram)  More about Akeel: https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber (Twitter) https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar (LinkedIn) https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast (More Podcast Sessions )

Imagine this: Your company is getting acquired and the buyers want to know what agreements are inside all of your contracts. How do you figure it out? That’s the problem today’s guest had while working with Backupify. When he couldn’t find a simple solution, he decided to create one himself. Vishal Sunak co-founder of LinkSquares, an app for legal and finance teams to automate the search and reporting process. Vishal Sunak co-founder of LinkSquares, an app for legal and finance teams to automate the search and reporting process. Sponsored byHostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website. Unbounce – If you want to know some of the techniques that I use to have conversations that go deep, even with strangers, go to Unbounce.com/Mixergy. You’ll get instant access to a guide I wrote about how I get people to open up. It covers How-tos like keeping a conversation on track and humanizing a phone call. I’ll also give you specific phrases that help people get personal. Just go to Unbounce.com/Mixergy to get the downloadable guide. More interviews -> https://mixergy.com/moreint Rate this interview -> https://mixergy.com/rateint

Guest: Jason Pryce, Technical Channel Development Manager with Datto (www.datto.com) Check out my interview with Ryan Goodman with ConnectBooster: Confessions of an IT Business Owner Datto has revamped their partner program.They also do more than just backup. Hear more about SaaS Protection (formerly Backupify), DattoRMM, Autotask PSA, and Datto Networking. To learn more about what […]

Topics: -After our show with Jon Brown of Grove Technologies, Joe wanted to listen again to absorb the information on things like pricing models.  -Sam is exploring option for changing up his monthly number to a tiered system, similar to Grove Technologies.  -As they get into the tiered option, the hosts begin to discuss their thoughts about everything from profit to detail of services.  -Joe talks about his model and how he includes a smaller monthly fee with a discount on pre-paid hours.  -We revisit reselling services that our clients need. Even small numbers add up over time. Services like Microsoft 365, Backupify, BackBlaze are common.  -Sam discusses the ease of use with Backupify and has a recent use case.  -Dopbox Business Partner Program has a good incentive for partners who sign up.  -What about Synology and local servers? Where do they fit in with our clients?

TheNextCMO's latest podcast is with Mark Feldman. Mark Feldman is a B2B data industry pioneer who helped build NetProspex into a B2B contact industry powerhouse leading to its acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet in 2015. Prior to founding Custom Made Data, Mark held growth marketing and revenue operations leadership roles at Localytics, Motion Recruitment Partners, and Backupify. In this podcast we discuss what types of data Marketer's should consider purchasing, Plannuh's positive experience with Custom Made Data, and how marketers should think about buying data to align with their target audience. Mark Feldman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markfeldman Custom Made Data - www.custommadedata.com Mark's email: mfeldman@custommadedata.com Interested in being on The Next CMO podcast? - https://info.plannuh.com/the-next-cmo-podcast For more info about Plannuh, check out our website

Today on the show, we've got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. With LinkSquares, you know what terms you've signed and what agreements your company has made. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Vishal and I talk about what it's like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process.

Today on the show, we've got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. With LinkSquares, you know what terms you've signed and what agreements your company has made. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Vishal and I talk about what it's like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process.

LinkSquares, the Boston-based provider of AI-powered contract management and analysis technology for corporate legal departments, announced a major new product this week. Called LinkSquares Finalize, it extends the company’s technology into the pre-signature stage, helping its customers create and approve contracts more quickly and efficiently.  This news comes just three months after LinkSquares raised $14.5 million in a Series A financing round, bringing its total financing to $21 million. And it comes after a year in which the company saw 300% year-over-year growth.  On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Vishal Sunak, who cofounded LinkSquares in 2015 and has been its CEO ever since. He and cofounder Chris Combs started the company after participating in the acquisition of the company where they formerly worked, Backupify, and witnessing the need for a better way to manage enterprise contracts.  Hear how they bootstrapped and built the company from scratch, why Sunak sees contract management as so vital to corporations, and where he sees the industry heading.  NEW: Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com. We are now on Patreon! Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests.

Rob May is a general partner at PJC, a leading venture capital firm. He was previously CEO of Talla, a platform for AI and automation, as well as co-founder and CEO of Backupify. Rob is an angel investor who has invested in numerous companies, and author of InsideAI which is said to be one of the most widely-read AI newsletters on the planet. In this episode, Rob and I discuss AI from a VC perspective. We look into the current state of AI, service as a software, and what Rob looks for in his startup investments and portfolio companies. We also investigate why so many companies are struggling to push their AI projects forward to completion, and how this can be improved. Finally, we outline some important things that founders can do to make products based on machine intelligence (machine learning) attractive to investors. In our chat, we covered: The emergence of service as a software, which can be understood as a logical extension of “software eating the world” and the 2 hard things to get right (Yes, you read it correctly and Rob will explain what this new SAAS acronym means!) ! How automation can enable workers to complete tasks more efficiently and focus on bigger problems machines aren’t as good at solving Why AI will become ubiquitous in business—but not for 10-15 years Rob’s Predict, Automate, and Classify (PAC) framework for deploying AI for business value, and how it can help achieve maximum economic impact Economic and societal considerations that people should be thinking about when developing AI - and what we aren’t ready for yet as a society Dealing with biases and stereotypes in data, and the ethical issues they can create when training models How using synthetic data in certain situations can improve AI models and facilitate usage of the technology Concepts product managers of AI and ML solutions should be thinking about Training, UX and classification issues when designing experiences around AI The importance of model-market fit. In other words, whether a model satisfies a market demand, and whether it will actually make a difference after being deployed. Resources and Links: Email Rob@pjc.vc PJC Talla SmartBid The PAC Framework for Deploying AI Twitter: @robmay  Sign up for Rob’s Newsletter Quotes from Today’s Episode “[Service as a software] is a logical extension of software eating the world. Software eats industry after industry, and now it's eating industries using machine learning that are primarily human labor focused.” — Rob “It doesn't have to be all digital. You could also think about it in terms of restaurant automation, and some of those things where if you keep the interface the same to the customer—the service you're providing—you strip it out, and everything behind that, if it's digital it's an algorithm and if it's physical, then you use a robot.” — Rob, on service as a software. “[When designing for] AI you really want to find some way to convey to the user that the tool is getting smarter and learning.”— Rob “There's a gap right now between the business use cases of AI and the places it's getting adopted in organizations,” — Rob “The reason that AI's so interesting is because what you effectively have now is software models tha

Rob May is a general partner at PJC, a leading venture capital firm. He was previously CEO of Talla, a platform for AI and automation, as well as co-founder and CEO of Backupify. Rob is an angel investor who has invested in numerous companies, and author of InsideAI which is said to be one of the most widely-read AI newsletters on the planet. In this episode, Rob and I discuss AI from a VC perspective. We look into the current state of AI, service as a software, and what Rob looks for in his startup investments and portfolio companies. We also investigate why so many companies are struggling to push their AI projects forward to completion, and how this can be improved. Finally, we outline some important things that founders can do to make products based on machine intelligence (machine learning) attractive to investors. In our chat, we covered: The emergence of service as a software, which can be understood as a logical extension of “software eating the world” and the 2 hard things to get right (Yes, you read it correctly and Rob will explain what this new SAAS acronym means!) ! How automation can enable workers to complete tasks more efficiently and focus on bigger problems machines aren’t as good at solving Why AI will become ubiquitous in business—but not for 10-15 years Rob’s Predict, Automate, and Classify (PAC) framework for deploying AI for business value, and how it can help achieve maximum economic impact Economic and societal considerations that people should be thinking about when developing AI – and what we aren’t ready for yet as a society Dealing with biases and stereotypes in data, and the ethical issues they can create when training models How using synthetic data in certain situations can improve AI models and facilitate usage of the technology Concepts product managers of AI and ML solutions should be thinking about Training, UX and classification issues when designing experiences around AI The importance of model-market fit. In other words, whether a model satisfies a market demand, and whether it will actually make a difference after being deployed. Resources and Links: Email Rob@pjc.vc PJC Talla SmartBid The PAC Framework for Deploying AI Twitter: @robmay  Sign up for Rob’s Newsletter Quotes from Today’s Episode “[Service as a software] is a logical extension of software eating the world. Software eats industry after industry, and now it’s eating industries using machine learning that are primarily human labor focused.” — Rob “It doesn’t have to be all digital. You could also think about it in terms of restaurant automation, and some of those things where if you keep the interface the same to the customer—the service you’re providing—you strip it out, and everything behind that, if it’s digital it’s an algorithm and if it’s physical, then you use a robot.” — Rob, on service as a software. “[When designing for] AI you really want to find some way to convey to the user that the tool is getting smarter and learning.”— Rob “There’s a gap right now between the business use cases of AI and the places it’s getting adopted in organizations,” — Rob “The reason that AI’s so interesting is because what you e

Topics: -Command Control Power needs your help. If you feel like the show has benefited you and your business, please consider supporting us on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/cmdctrlpwr -Joe happens to be in his office for a change yet Sam is recording at 65+ MPH -As Sam is using AirPods to record, they discuss the naming convention behind AirPods Pro -Joe has a mail migration to handle for a client and is sad to discover POP mailboxes in the mix -Local mailboxes create a need to migrate to a mail server using a mail client.  Both Joe & Sam prefer Outlook over Apple Mail for this purpose. -Curve balls in a project like mail migrations always make billable time a challenge -This calls to mind a recent proposal that Sam presented to a new client, only to find that they had additional devices that he didn’t account for -As Sam looks to increase monthly revenue, he is focusing on additional services like JumpCloud & Backupify. -One of Sam’s clients decides to openly risk data loss when presented with cloud backup options in Backupify. -This same client recently had a migration from a local file server to Google Drive and even with a planning meeting involved, still came up with surprises and workflow changes that made the process an ongoing challenge -Joe recalls a story of hanging up on a client after being disrespectfully addressed -“They’re not jerks.  They’re just stupid!” -Respect in a working relationship is an absolute necessity  -Sometimes you should not take on a new client if you see red flags -A benefit of “co-opetition” is warning each other about difficult clients -Joe has been performing a number of migrations to Dropbox lately -Sam has a question for Joe & fellow consultants when choosing cloud storage services if a client has a product that already has that functionality -“Failure mode observations” by Joe.  Could this be another corner?

Episode Summary: In this episode, Rob and Matt sit down with Vishal Sunak, one of Rob's earliest employees at Backupify, to learn more about LinkSquares. Started by Vishal and his co-founder in 2015, LinkSquares was created in response to a pain point that Vishal experienced first-hand at Backupify: the messiness of contract management. Tune in to learn more about why Vishal has loved his new roles as startup founder and CEO and to hear his tips on hiring and navigating the world of fundraising. Uncovered in this episode:Vishal's unique journey into entrepreneurship -- and the mentors he met along the wayHow to be undeniable: The power in letting your numbers speak for themselves when it comes to fundraisingHow LinkSquares builds team culture and customer centricity through weekly “Customer Stories” All HandsWhy getting it right is not as important as recognizing when you've got it wrongList of resources mentioned in episode and suggested reading: Website: https://linksquares.com/About LinkSquares: At LinkSquares, we think your internal legal and finance teams have better things to do than spending thousands of hours a year reviewing contracts one by one. So we built software that automatically reads and retrieves key data from your entire library of agreements, making review and diligence projects lightning fast and super simple. You'll be up and running on our AI-powered Contract Analytics cloud in a snap too - our white-glove onboarding will have you launched, trained, and fully integrated into your workflows in 30 days.  So go focus on raising money, getting acquired, or just plain growing as fast as you can. With LinkSquares, your contracts will become a source of knowledge the entire company can depend on.  About Vishal: Vishal Sunak is the CEO and Co-Founder of LinkSquares, an AI-powered contract management and analytics company. LinkSquares gives legal teams the ability to accurately understand what's in their contracts without having to do time-consuming and costly manual contract review. In his role, Vishal drives overall business strategy and vision for the company. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he ran operations and product management teams at high-growth SaaS companies including Backupify (acquired by Datto) and InsightSquared. Vishal has a BS in Engineering from Northeastern University and an MS from WPI.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around customer support that has the power to 10x your ticket response times. My guest is Rob May, Co-founder and CEO of Talla.Rob has a background in engineering, business development, and management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a MBA from the University of Kentucky.In October 2008, he co-founded and became CEO of Backupify which provided a secure second copy of cloud data. Their clients included companies like Salesforce, Google apps, and more. Backupify was acquired by Datto in December 2014 and Rob became the SVP of business development overseeing the Backupify's integration after the acquisition.In August 2015, May co-founded and became CEO of Talla which develops machine intelligence, virtual assistants, and conversation UI/UX for enterprises. In addition, Talla is launching a decentralised bot registration and marketplace platform, BotChain.When I learned about the positive impact Talla’s has on support organizations I instantly invited Rob for my podcast. We explore his views on what’s broken in market for ‘search’ and how that’s actually leading to unwanted behavior. We also address his learnings on technology adoption, and why this is not only of fundamental importance to increased user productivity, but also to keep your solutions always in sync with the reality of the business.Here are some of his quotes:Talla is in the customer support automation space. And what we do is we take your, not just your ticketing data, but your actual support content, we ingest it and understand it.The biggest thing that we see in our customers, and the reason that they do this is, you know, hiring is a is a challenge right now, at least, you know, here in the US, the labor market is pretty tight. And so we've sold to a lot of very high growth tech companies who need to hire 150 support reps this year, and they just can't.So they're looking for ways for how they make their existing support reps more productive. And we know that, you know, with Talla that can be anywhere from sort of 20 to 60% productivity increased, depending on the nature of their business.During this interview, you will learn three things:How you can kill two birds with one stone by adopting a UX/UI driven way of thinking about Machine LearningWhy succeeding with AI is not so much about segmenting the market by traditional demographics but more one of addressing the right mindset.How to make solid progress by following a ‘test and invest’ approach. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of the Marketing Swipe File, DG sits down with marketing technology veteran Elle Woulfe, VP of Marketing at PathFactory. Before joining PathFactory, Elle built her career at Lattice Engines, Eloqua, and Backupify where she became well-known for her B2B demand gen and account-based marketing chops. Elle talks to DG about all things ABM, marketing to marketers, setting SEO goals, building and managing remote teams, the secrets to growing your career in marketing, and much more.

With a new business, it's always a struggle at first. Then you succeed. How do you know when it's time to sell? Now? Down the road? Never? The Language of Business looks at exit strategies. Host Greg Stoller talks with four experts on building a company and considering an exit strategy. Guests are Histogenics CEO John Lieber, Furquan Nazeeri of ExtensionEngine LLP, Robb May of Backupify and Ryan Trager of Achvr.  

With a new business, it's always a struggle at first. Then you succeed. How do you know when it's time to sell? Now? Down the road? Never? The Language of Business looks at exit strategies. Host Greg Stoller talks with four experts on building a company and considering an exit strategy. Guests are CEO for Emerging Growth Companies John Lieber, Furquan Nazeeri of ExtensionEngine LLP, Robb May of Backupify and Ryan Trager of Achvr.  

Rob May, investor 45+ co's & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla's ICO & future of bots, blockchain, & crypto

Rob May, investor 45+ co's & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla's ICO & future of bots, blockchain, & crypto

The post E18: “Angel” podcast: Rob May, investor 45+ co’s & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla’s ICO & future of bots, blockchain, & crypto appeared first on This Week In Startups.

Charlie oDonnell is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. His fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised.  Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna among others. He previously had investment roles at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital. Charlie has a reputation for being early to identifying important companies. Nick Bilton identifies him as an influence on early Twitter investors in his book, Hatching Twitter. Dennis Crowley credits him as having helped kick off the first funding of Foursquare before other VCs had said yes. At First Round Capital, he sourced the firm's investments in Singleplatform (sold to Constant Contact) and GroupMe (sold to Skype).  Charlie discovered GroupMe at the hackathon where the service had been built. He also sourced investments in Backupify (which was an idea he had tweeted to the founder, a friend of his), chloe + isabel, and Refinery29.   Charlie bikes to work, has done four triathlons, the NYC marathon, and runs the kayaking program in Brooklyn Bridge Park.  The longest he has consecutively been outside of the five boroughs of New York City is three weeks.   During This Show We Discuss… What stage of growth a company should consider raising Venture Capital (VC) The common attributes of companies that VCs look for to fund a deal The importance of a business plan when it comes to getting an investment How important the experience of the owner is to obtaining successful funding The amounts of money VCs commonly lend Which industries best attract venture capital How your industry impacts your evaluation What tools and services VCs use to evaluate the value of a company The common mistakes made when founders start their companies The common mistakes business owners make when trying to raise VC Things that are an absolute turn off to lending money The factors that make a company the most attractive to want to lend money The types of systems or processes that should be in place before a company seeks venture capital The percentage of ownership are VCs typically looking for The level of involvement in the company VCs typically want to have How long the process typically takes for a VC investment to take place The metrics and analytics VCs track after investing The changes that take place when a business brings in outside investors

This week, Inc. editors and writers talk about the women entrepreneurs building multi-million dollar businesses in the feminine care, garment and hygiene product industry, and how a Brooklyn-based incubator is helping ex-convicts start their own businesses making furniture. Lastly, the podcast crew interviews entrepreneur Rob May, who built Backupify and sold it to Datto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Combs is the Co-founder & CEO at LinkSquares. In this episode, Chris talks about his experience raising capital for his various startups, how to avoid “Legal Debt” and specific strategies Chris used to go from idea to salable product at LinkSquares.   Podcast Topics & Notes:   3:00 - How Chris & I met via Quora 6:30 - Chris’s personal need around Datto’s acquisition of Backupify led to founding LinkSquares 15:30 - About SalesQualia & Startup Selling | Give me a call @ (415) 596-0804 or email: scott@salesqualia.com 17:00 - Importance of a Legal document tracking system 19:00 - Avoiding Legal Debt 20:30 - Using e-signtuare tools like DocuSign 22:30 - Angel capital raising strategies & lessons learned 26:00 - Putting sales & customer development first before capital-raising 30:00 - New funding round definitions around angel round vs seed stage vs venture funding. Building a referral network. 37:30 - Building an MVP at LinkSquares from idea to product 1.0 to salable MVP 45:30 - Completing 50 customer development conversations 51:00 - Selling your MVP & pilot programs. "Getting in the direction of sales."   Websites & Resources mentioned in the podcast:   Chris Combs & LinkSquares: www.linksquares.com www.twitter.com/chriscombs www.linkedin.com/in/christophercombs   Scott Sambucci on Quora: www.quora.com/profile/Scott-Sambucci Datto Backupify: www.datto.com/backupify CoreLogic: www.corelogic.com Blend: www.blendlabs.com Trello: www.trello.com Atlassian: www.atlassian.com DocuSign: www.docusign.com

In this episode we discuss using google image search to see what a company is known for, Comixology, Atlassian valued at 3.3 billion, Heartbleed bug, Salesforce backups using Backupify, Salesforce.com's new industries unit, John's new office chair the Herman Miller Embody, are tools like Docker going to overshadow PAAS, and the agony of an African programmerComixologyAtlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion Selling Business Software Sans SalespeopleSalesforce Will Pay $690M To Expand Its SF HQ Into The New Salesforce TowerHeartbleed BugBackupify for Salesforce Now Provides One-Click RestoreSalesforce.com EVP Vivek Kundra to Head New Industries UnitDream On Salesforce, SAP Prez Unimpressed by Your ThreatsSalesforce.com is officially out of ideaHerman Miller Embody ChairSo … do you really need a PaaS?Agony of an African Programmer Download MP3 (51.8 MB, 01:11:27)

How Big Changes Affect Your #startupculture featuring Gary Fortier, COO at Raizlabs, Susan Hunt-Stevens, CEO & Founder at Practically Green, and Ben Thomas, VP of Security at Backupify talking about growing pains, culture, innovation, and trust.

Robbie and Christa demonstrate Backupify, an online service to backup your Google services such as Gmail and Calendar, plus Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more.

Starring:Host: Robbie FergusonCo-Host: Christa Wells Robbie and Christa demonstrate Backupify, an online service to backup your Google services such as Gmail and Calendar, plus Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more. Read the complete show notes, comment or rate this episode, view pictures and obtain links from this episode at https://category5.tv/shows/technology/episode/257/ Running time: 1 Hour 1 Minute 10 Seconds

Ya comenté hace unos meses la posibilidad mediante Facebook de hacer una copia de seguridad de tu perfil personal con todos los datos y fotos que contiene, pero ¿sabes cómo hacer una copia de seguridad de todos los datos de tu página de fans? Hoy quiero compartir con vosotros Backupify, una herramienta que te ayudará a hacer esta copia de seguridad que almacenará las fotos, actualizaciones, videos...

Ya comenté hace unos meses la posibilidad mediante Facebook de hacer una copia de seguridad de tu perfil personal con todos los datos y fotos que contiene, pero ¿sabes cómo hacer una copia de seguridad de todos los datos de tu página de fans? Hoy quiero compartir con vosotros Backupify, una herramienta que te ayudará a hacer esta copia de seguridad que almacenará las fotos, actualizaciones, videos...

Everyone (well, we hope everyone) knows data backup is important. That's why we always vow to be more diligent after we lose more data at an inopportune time. Data backup has become more complicated over the past few years as our data moves out from our computers to the cloud. We know what to do, so why don't we? In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss current good practices for data backup, whether backup fundamentals are changing, and how to walk the backup walk and not just talk the backup talk. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis' co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

In this 3rd attempt at Episode 3 (yes, I managed to mess up the recording twice!), we discuss issues of online tools that go away, such as the now old news of Delicious and Google Wave. Issues of evaluating and adopting technology tools, adapting to the fast rates of change, backing up cloud-stored data, and some upcoming conferences are touched on.Download Episode 3 (mp3: 48.18 min)or listen to the streaming version: Podcast Notes:Delicious Going Away News [TechCrunch]Flickr rumors [NY Times]Google Wave is Dead [ReadWriteWeb] Memento App for Android BackupifyDiigo Social Bookmark toolLibrarians and Failure Librarians and the Echo Chamber SLOAN-C ConferenceComputers in Libraries 2011ACRL Annual ConferenceSUNYLA Annual Conference3 T's Conference: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology and TransliteracyMusic attribution: Dancing On My Bed (The Pleasure Kills) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

This is the 8th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded January 8, 2010.  This episode was hosted by Tom Eston, Kevin Johnson and Scott Wright.  Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast: Backupify.com – A solution for backing up all your social media site content.  Check […] The post Social Media Security Podcast 8 – Would You Commit Social Media Suicide? appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

On this episode of the Marketing Swipe File, DG sits down with marketing technology veteran Elle Woulfe, VP of Marketing at PathFactory. Before joining PathFactory, Elle built her career at Lattice Engines, Eloqua, and Backupify where she became well-known for her B2B demand gen and account-based marketing chops. Elle talks to DG about all things ABM, marketing to marketers, setting SEO goals, building and managing remote teams, the secrets to growing your career in marketing, and much more.